Aquarium combined with Cat Furniture

Abstract

An aquarium combined with cat furniture comprising an aquarium full of water that is used to house aquatic animals and is supported on a platform, which is an integral part of cat furniture. The cat furniture is covered in carpeting or similar material. The cat furniture functions as both a platform to support the aquarium and to provide artificial cat habitat to facilitate such functional cat behaviors as climbing, clawing, hiding, stalking and sleeping. There can be a removable hood placed on top of the aquarium that is covered in similar material as the cat furniture and used as a perch for a cat. There can also be an air chamber display case submerged inside the aquarium that is in fluid communication with the atmosphere through a conduit that provides a passageway for a cat to travel from outside of the aquarium to the interior air chamber display case.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]This invention pertains to an article of manufacture in the field of animal husbandry (Class 119), more specifically to the subclasses aquarium and combined aquarium. The present invention relates to the integration of an aquarium combined with cat furniture.[0002]The domestic housecat likes to climb, claw, conceal, stalk and nap. The pet industry provides a wide array of artificial cat habitats to gratify these behaviors. The pet industry has various names for this type of cat furniture, including cat condos, cat tree houses, cat houses, cat gyms, cat towers, cat perches and cat scratching posts. For example, poles having platforms or decks upon which the cat can climb and perch, are illustrated in U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,479,991; 3,595,209; D370,093 and 4,497,279. Structures upon which cats can climb and sharpen their claws have also been illustrated in U.S. Pat. No. 4,112,873.[0003]Anyone who has owned both a cat and an aquarium, knows that cats are inst...

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Benefits of technology

[0009]The present invention solves the problems of prior art by utilizing a novel design for an aquarium combined with cat furniture. The preferred embodiment of the present invention comprises a substantially transparent aquarium full of water. Contained inside the aquarium is a smaller, completely submerged, substantially transparent, inner air chamber display case connected to the bottom floor of the aquarium and is water tight. The aquarium is used to house and display aquatic animals,

Problems solved by technology

It is also known that occasionally curiosity can get a cat into trouble with the aquarium or the aquarium owner.

Cats have been known to damage aquarium stands by scratching.

Prior art attempts at aquarium combinations that provide the illusion of viewing terrestrial animals existing underwater in an aquarium have failed to make the necessary provisions for a cat.

This type of design is inadequate in providing life support functions, such as food, water, cleaning and care for a cat.

In addition, this type of design is unsuitable for maintaining the well being of a free roaming cat.

Prior art has failed to recognize the utility of a combining an aquarium with cat furniture.

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